A Tale of Two Business Systems

A Tale of Two Business Systems
In 1990, James Womack joined with Dan Jones and Dan Roos to co-author The Machine That Changed The World – a description of how Toyota was using Lean techniques to change auto manufacturing. In this thoughtful article Womack, who now heads the Lean Enterprise Institute, reflects on what has happened since The Machine was published.

James Womack

Management expert James P. Womack, Ph.D., is the founder and chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit training, publishing, conferencing, and management research organization chartered in August, 1997, to advance a set of ideas known as lean production and lean thinking, based initially on the Toyota Production System.